On February 3rd, 2015, my oldest sister, Susie Will Stallings Brooks died of complication of a stroke. This for me, her baby brother was a devastating blow in my life. Not even my family knew at th...więcej »
High school sweethearts, Joe and Amy, grew up together from the sweet age of 16. They lived their lives to the fullest; travelling around Australia, South East Asia, Indonesia, Mentawai Islands,...więcej »
1977 was, for one fourteen year old boy the year that changed his life - the year he was diagnosed with epilepsy.Glyn Marston woke up in the middle of the road early one August morning an...więcej »
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the second world war and then post-war austerity, this story never slows down, with Joyce continually on the move, physically and emotionally.From age...więcej »
Would you send your teenager into the Alaska wilderness to work for people you never met? On June 9, 1973, 16-year-old Michael Travis put an advertisement in the Fairbanks Daily News Miner looki...więcej »
Part manual of handy hints, part practical guide, and above all a humorous personal diary, A Tin of Tomatoes and a Tiny Scooter is a tale of what typically befalls those who choose to restore a ...więcej »
Ken Phillips enlisted at the start of World War 2 and joined the Rifle Brigade. He was sent to North Africa where he was part of an anti-tank division engaged in a rolling battl...więcej »
Jerre Wills was in his late teens when he began feeling something tugging at his shirt-tail, and finally pulling with the force of a 300 pound barn-door halibut heading for deep water on the end...więcej »
This is the story of a sixth-grade social studies project that took on a life of its own and captivated a family for more than a year. As an entry for the National History Day competition, the stor...więcej »
Solatle Lu - an ordinary oriental, an author of several extraordinary books.Is he an independent thinker, or only a misfit? From this book, his own sketch book, you may find the answer fo...więcej »
A gripping, vital account of one man's imprisonment by Taiwan's police state early in the Cold War.In 1954 Tehpen Tsai was arrested by the Kuomintang regime on suspicion of being a Chines...więcej »
"Has all the ingredients of the best memoirs: an exotic setting, quirky characters, and cultural discord ultimately redeemed by love and acceptance."-Claire Chao, author ...więcej »
Twelve Years a Slave is a 19th century memoir by American Solomon Northup. Northup, a black man born free in New York state, tells how he was tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidn...więcej »
"Glimpses of an Irish Felon's Prison Life" is a 1922 autobiographical account of Thomas J. Clarke. Thomas James Clarke (1858 - 1916) was a leader in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret oath-...więcej »
This powerful and immensely nostalgic story centres around Olympic hopeful Chloe, whose promising career as a swimmer is devastatingly shut down at the age of fourteen by a rape and its ensuing ...więcej »
"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves." Dalai Lama Are you feeling stressed out every day?Does it seem like you are constantl...więcej »
Beachside Como and South Perth in the 1950s and 60s - the time and place of my early life. Then, even more than now, Perth's remoteness gave its citizens a distinctive independent spirit....więcej »
Life's trials have a way of quickly erasing past triumphs and miracles from our memories. Doubt, fear, and anxiety soon set in, and sometimes, we turn to other things to fill the void only He ca...więcej »
Time and Tide Adventures on Alaska's Copper River Delta is a story about a duck cabin on Alaska's Copper River Delta-and much more! In 1959 the Shellhorns built their place on Pete Dahl...więcej »